the moscow plane crash claims another fatality five people have now died after the passenger jet they were on slammed into a busy highway after overshooting the runway three survivors remain in critical condition. and eye witness describes to r.t. how he helped rescue a wounded woman from the crash as he drove past the scene of the accident. in our look at the week's other main news president putin signs into law a ban on americans adopting russian children but it's dividing public opinion in russia even though the authorities insist it is aimed at the flawed adoption system in the u.s. . and egypt's new constitution which sparked weeks of protests is officially

adopted but matters are far from settled with opposition leaders now under investigation for allegedly plotting to topple the topple the president. and it is five o'clock in the morning on new year's eve in moscow glad to have you with us this is our. five people have now died as a result of the plane crash when a passenger jet overshot the runway at one of russia's busiest airports one of the wounded a flight attendants died of her injuries in the hospital on sunday the four airliner crashed through a fence into the side of a major highway breaking into three parts all eight people on board were crew members the crash happened a ten kilometers from the city this is video taken by a motorist dashboard camera which captured the moment of impact.

for those on the highway at the time a lucky escape but an incident which clearly left them shocked. earlier my colleague carrie johnson talked to a witness who stopped his car and got out to help the injured including the flight attendant who has since died in the hospital he explained it to us how he found her and shared some of the dramatic video he shot. her with with us i was the first to get there i saw the flight attendant asking for help to get the other flight attendant out so we had to go inside the plane me and a few other volunteers. we followed the blood trail looking for her and finally found her further down the cabin we carried her out and tried to get through to the highway that she had some very bad things shell and head injuries and bertha legs were broken iranians were hurting from the jet fuel that had come out but she was in a really bad shape but still conscious about it did she same thing at all. she

kept saying that your eyes and legs were hurting and i was asking to be put on the ground she was in a shock and disoriented there were only four or five people who volunteered to help together with me others were too scared to go near the planes as the engine was in fire and they couldn't put it out for twenty minutes so we were the only ones to give some help. as we mentioned of the crash has now claimed the lives of five people who were on board the other three are still in critical condition now investigators are trying to fathom why the two beloved two or four careened off the runway it is a relatively new type of aircraft which had never been before involved in a deadly crash outlines how the tragedy happened step by step. the twenty ninth of december the last working day of two thousand and twelve in russia four pm businesses closed offices put off until the next year families friends employees jump into their cars and escape the busy capital he's got highway heads to the west

a region where most of the luxury states and country houses are located traffic jams a common with a song of the day and this song of the year would want to lock the road is almost empty. passengers come out of the car to see what the sound was a big stack to see anything but not this. just minutes before that at two going to have to call for flight number nine to six and eight because landed a look at the first time that is unsuccessful the plane makes a wrong over the airport and begins to send in for a second time when they start the played touches down but can stall the experience true at that moment very slightly nose already they will not make it the jets

reaches the end of the runway rams into the fans but still continues moving and it finally stops after overrunning the asteroid by four hundred meters the plane breaks into three parts and tail is lying over there the whole year the road people can easily see it's number are a six four zero four seven the middle part just part of metres away the cockpit already partially damaged after the crash with the friends fall right at the edge of the highway it's a miracle indeed the road is empty of that time this is a ten lane highway the racket is only on one of the lanes traffic continues on at least three here even after the tragedy so sassan by flood zone to see what happened they notice and then playing with my on the road the very road they usually drive every friday and everybody thinks at that moment who are thieves i'd

have come minutes heard it was eve i have been on that airplane people come out of their cars and try to help out in the cockpit however that. weather conditions technical failure and pilot error are among the investigators main causes of that use it in but most likely a combination of reasons behind a fatal crash however a plane he chain a busy highway in one of europe's biggest cities could have left a much more devastating trail of destruction. more pictures and eyewitness accounts from the scene of the accident on our website where you can also find out more about the plane itself that's at our team dot com. from new year's day the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president putin signed into the measure into law it is a tit for tat a response to america's sanctions against russian officials which it sees as human

rights violators has more on the diplomatic spat. you have to understand that the law the so-called dental magnitsky law actually deals primarily a with imposing travel and financial strictures on the number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and only only part of the law actually bans the adoption of russian children a by american citizens it has been in part inspired of by the case of the way you have to live a russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in the car in the blistering heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american law system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you activists father adoptive father walked away with a fine aside from this new law russian lawmakers are also pledging to improve the

lives of the orphans and also improve foster care situation in russia but this new particular law is seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago. which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the case. a russian lawyer who was charged with the tax evasion put in for literary confinement and then died while in custody now sergei magnitsky family friends and several few in the eyes of his ations believe the charges against one of these two were trumped up and that he died in custody for on the t.v. or beatings these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the ongoing a tit for tat is put diplomatic battle which seems to be going on despite the a reset button pushed several years ago russian studies and history professor steven cohen from new york and princeton university's says he's never been under any illusions about russia's u.s.

relations. so there is an old russian saying we're friends are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and in washington who may pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstanding politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they had that they feel all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's interim the politics most

recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy that began twenty years ago with the soviet union. iran's rolling out the big guns in the persian gulf. iran undertakes massive navy drills in the strategic a strait of hormuz to show the world what it's got of trouble comes a calling as we report to this short break. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions and the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablished that allegedly hey of and constantine should show from faire russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get

a businessman on to their party's electoral lists getting him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilization make but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style.

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something. lies beneath. thousands of meters of ice and from. the lab. that is aloof from many. but dangerous even to those to keep it at a distance. for dinner in the gallery and my and her team in the newsroom and of course me sean thomas here in the studio you're with r t and we're glad to have you with us egypt's president morsi has made an attempt to ease political tensions in the country calling on the opposition to engage in dialogue but his offer was met with skepticism since it came shortly after the launch of an investigation into his

three top opponents the chief prosecutor is citing allegations that opposition leaders including nobel prize winner mohamed el baradei incited their supporters to topple morsi earlier this week it was announced in the divisive a new constitution was approved by over sixty percent of egyptians and made to stage a referendum the opposition claims that the islamists drafted a document in shrines that sharia law and only got a yes vote because of fraud neil clark a world affairs contributor for britain's guardian newspaper explained to us why morsi doesn't feel secure even after winning the referendum. i think he wants to sort of deflect attention from the economy because the underlying problem paint the biggest we're facing egypt is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs poverty is on the rise and the subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gas and the city are going to rocket and so this is a kind of a sort of smokescreen for him and he i think each breaking to get tied up in these the legal challenges to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the

issues where he's he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and that seems to be that that he said is on the way. and i think that obviously you know i think we can see more protests in the new year. the end of the year in iran is being marked by massive naval drills held in the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest oil shipping routes submarines warships jet fighters are all taking part with the aim of proving tehran is well equipped to defend its maritime borders the maneuvers come as the west builds up pressure over iran's nuclear program piling on sanctions against the country tehran warned a few months ago that it could have blocked this trade but its neighbors commanders say that's not on the agenda for now professor say that mohammad marandi from tehran university explained why the iranians don't think there's any danger of a military confrontation in the near future. in the sense that western countries

are brutal and uncivilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to iran is the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions and cargo on it on iran they're trying to prevent iran from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuff by blocking the central bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people have died so the fact that western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that. i deal of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would contemplate if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon in gaza make as well the economic crisis in europe in north america make it highly unlikely but

the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that itself has been a to turn to war so they i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely. u.k. health officials propose a new way of tackling obesity the country's serious plague with more than sixty percent of adults being at risk of developing cancer diabetes and heart disease due to being overweight the national health service says its medical staff over half are obese should set an example. and it's a case of another day another scandal twelve million euros missing from greece's tourist industry just when the country needs it most we report on who's to blame at our t.v. dot com. while

the so-called fiscal cliff deadline hangs heavy there is still no deal in signed between the firmly entrenched republicans and democrats millions of americans stand to see their taxes go up dramatically on new year's day but the sticking points holding up negotiations are the rates for the rich the republicans are rejecting any deal that would see those taxes rise while the democrats insist the wealthy could pay a little bit more charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news says it's ironic is that the u.s. is the main parties have difficulty reaching a deal on policies to aid the nation's poor but had little trouble agreeing on the defense budget. when the cameras are on you know if they're on the red team they're coming out there saying it's the welfare. of people on food stamps or the people in extended unemployment benefits if they're on the blue team they're coming out and trying to get their base fired up that it's all about corporate interests and this is why we can't come up video but isn't it amazing when the cameras are off and it's time to pass

a trillion dollar nearly trillion dollar defense bill they have no problem whatsoever coming to coming together and holding hands with that kind of a deal together since two thousand and one namely we've been covering this nation by proxy the world. by crisis and it doesn't matter who gets hurt these good gets left by the wayside as long as a special interest is served so is long as it's always under the shadow of crisis they will act but it's only when it has to do with acting in behalf of the people of this nation it seems like the people always take a back seat let's take a look at some more headlines making news around the world for you this hour. gun fire during anti-government protests near the central iraqi city of ramadi has left two people wounded bodyguards for the iraqi deputy prime minister fired the shots several reports say he was hit in the face with a bottle as he gave a speech during the rally have been more than a week of demonstrations which have seen sunni muslims protest against what they consider as second class treatment for the shia led government. u.n.

secretary general ban ki moon has urged india's authorities to take action to protect women after a twenty three year old student died after being gang raped the victim's body was cremated in new delhi the attack sparked days of riots with protesters demanding harsher penalties for acts of violence against women six suspects are currently being held over the assault they could face the death penalty if convicted. in a landslide in central colombia has killed five people and trapped at least twenty on the highway near the city of may even according to officials six cars are still buried under mud and rocks rescue operation is underway with over three hundred emergency workers at the scene and six people saved so far. fighting between the syrian army and opposition forces intensified in damascus on sunday rebels claiming they fired shells at the presidential palace meanwhile russia says that

the refusal of syria's key opposition coalition to talk with the government only paves the way for further bloodshed at a meeting in moscow both foreign minister sergey lavrov and international peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said that dialogue is the only way to resolve the conflict lab rob also reiterated that although russia condemns the methods used by the syrian army in the war take no part in a regime change here is his response to the leader of syria's key rebel group and demanded moscow apologize for what he described as support for president assad. if an emotional response i understand that mr had tb is probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interest to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to or opposition forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if

they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives with their conditions official notice. saying with syria now as our reporters who were on the ground throughout the year recalled the events that shaped the country in two thousand and twelve. it became very apparent after a massive regional arab spring and in the wake of that the next type of a pro-democracy movement and a revolution or civil war was out of what was happening in syria when you see some politicians that are in the media focusing just compared them to assad cracking down on his people you think but what about the other guy on top of the politics and diplomacy there are facts that are simply too important to ignore. i remember i

was a training session of the syrian football team and the coach was very angry with how his players were practice and he was shouting he was swearing from time to time and then i move my head like this just like this and i saw two helicopters flying at the very low altitude and firing we were each out of the hotel restaurant close to us there was a group for rich syrians playing cards from smoke and living life as usual and just the news before that as me and my colleagues were live in the local t.v. station there was an almost lost a few blocks away most likely terror attack most likely people have been killed and what struck you was the coexistence of those two. realises the reality of death and there are also a lot of the most interesting interaction for me with assad happened before and after the interview obviously and that's often the case. i asked him if he's

afraid. he said no. he said no i'm not afraid that's a moment when the you believe the person or not and the only reason you know if he's right or wrong is intuitional i think series becoming the next iraq it's a country that is totally disempower. well there then where death and murder don't surprise or shock anybody and like in the case of iraq all this current was done to syria with a substantial help of the outsiders under the guise of both democratic and time to see. and of course we've got more news in just over thirty minutes with me but before that we reveal more on the deadly gang wars in the city of angels it's after the short with.

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